This Year of the Dragon began on February 10, 2024. It begins a different energy than the Water Rabbit, the Dragon’s energetic predecessor, who has now recededed into its twelve-year rest in the zodiac when it will appear again. But now is the time of the Water Dragon!
Author: Michael Kessler
Navigating Cold, Flu and Virus Season With An Oriental Medicine Mindset
Our colleague, and friend of BIOM, Michael Max, L.Ac and Chinese Medicine Herbalist, has written this useful article about how to stay healthy during cold and flu season. A good read, filled with good information. “As the length of the days slips away and sunlight begins to fail earlier in the day, it is important […]
Food Is Energy: Five Element Eating Is the Source!
You’re born with a certain amount of chi that you inherit from your parents; you get a constant supply of chi from the air you breathe; and you need a constant source of chi from the food you eat. When you eat food that doesn’t have the proper nutritive value, your health gradually diminishes; when you eat a diet that’s balanced, based on the 5 Element Theory of Oriental Medicine, your health flourishes.
You Are The Source. Be Resourceful. Full of Resources.
How one sees oneself is very important. It affects your mental health and disposition. Focusing on what it feels like as you breathe is a useful technique for calming and centering; for getting your mind into a place to do purposeful things with Life.
Are You Ready? Covid Winter Is Coming!
As the Holiday Season arrives and we prepare ourselves to enter this first Winter of Covid, it is time for tales, new and old, told in ways new and old.
The attack of the Coronavirus has thrust humankind in an evolutionary moment! A statement surreal, yet all too true. An ancient Greek poet named, Hesiod gave the world the story about Pandora’s Box to warn about what can happen when Humankind strays too far from ‘home’; home being one’s inner knowing, one’s wisdom. It is not too far-fetched to say that’s where we Homosapients find ourselves today.
